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Anac authorizes iFood to make deliveries with drones in Brazil
Ifood drone
image: iFood
Rafael Ramos
1/29/2022
Last Friday (21), Anac (National Civil Aviation Agency) authorized the American company iFood to make deliveries with drones. The company is the first authorized to use drones for food and product delivery services in Brazil. To this end, iFood has a partnership with the delivery company Speedbird Aero.
The use of drones for deliveries has been going on since 2020, when Anac granted the Experimental Flight Authorization Certificate (CAVE) for iFood.
The authorization is only for Speedbird's DLV-1 NEO drone model, which is only 1.5m high and 1.2m wide. The drone was developed specifically to carry out deliveries.
The aircraft, however, will not deliver to the customer's home. Deliveries must take place within a radius of 3 km on a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) route, that is, beyond the line of sight. The drone must land in a specific and safe place to receive it. From there, a delivery person will pick up the product and make the rest of the journey.
“[The drones] take the orders to a droneport (a specific and safe area for drones to land and take off), where they are collected by an iFood delivery partner who completes the delivery by transporting them to the customers’ door,” said Fernando Martins. , head of logistics and innovation at iFood.
The loads must respect the limit of 2.5 kg, as well as the maximum and minimum height limits, not fly over people or fly in areas that have possible electromagnetic interference. Weather conditions must also be observed.
Flights with drones can greatly speed up deliveries. In a test carried out in December, a displacement of 2.8 km that would take 25 to 55 minutes to complete on the land route took just 5 minutes and 20 seconds.
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iFood Droneport
Image: Anac
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Rafael Ramos
Aviation enthusiast from an early age, he had his first contacts with the area developing that good old habit of spending dozens of hours in front of the screens of Micrsoft Flight Simulator and other simulators. With a solid background in various technological areas, including engineering and chemistry, Rafael has rejoined aviation as editor and author of articles and materials on our portal, providing invaluable help to the dynamics and expansion of the website and the aeronautical community, bringing us the news and updates so indispensable for us to remain current in our area of operation.
   
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